[Drakiyth]

My server is experiencing some horrid lag in certain zones with players running around with their 5 bots. The lag is so bad 2-3 players with bots (18 total characters) can crash it completely. There absolutely has to be something wrong here. The original EQ servers back in 1999-2000 probably didn't even have near 8 gigs of ram and T+ connection speed.. The machine and server host is solid as solid can be for this type of set up, yet it still crashes when people try to raid. (this goes for any zone). Is there anything I can personally do in the Server Rules Table or something that can fix this?


CURRENT ZONE SETTINGS

1 GM:MinStatusToZoneAnywhere 250 This setting overrides the minstatus setting in the zones table if set
1 World:ZoneAutobootTimeoutMS 120000 notation
1 Zone:GraveyardTimeMS 1200000
1 Zone:EnableShadowrest 1
1 Zone:ClientLinkdeadMS 180000
1 Zone:MQWarpExemptStatus -1
1 Zone:MQZoneExemptStatus -1
1 Zone:MQGateExemptStatus -1
1 Zone:MQGhostExemptStatus -1
1 Zone:EnableMQWarpDetector true
1 Zone:EnableMQZoneDetector true
1 Zone:EnableMQGateDetector true
1 Zone:EnableMQGhostDetector true
1 Zone:AutoShutdownDelay 5000
1 World:TutorialZoneID 272 notation
1 World:SoFStartZoneID 272 Sets the Starting Zone for SoF Clients separate from Titanium Clients (-1 is disabled)
1 Zone:UsePEQZoneDebuffs true Will determine if #peqzone will debuff players or not when used.
1 Zone:PEQZoneReuseTime 900 Amount of time, in seconds, before you can reuse the #peqzone command
1 Zone:PEQZoneDebuff1 4454 First debuff casted by #peqzone Default is Cursed Keepers Blight.
1 Zone:PEQZoneDebuff2 2209 Second debuff casted by #peqzone Default is Tendrils of Apathy.
1 Zone:MQWarpDetectionDistanceFactor 9.0 clients move at 4.4 about if in a straight line but with movement and to acct for lag we raise it a bit
1 Zone:NPCPositonUpdateTicCount 32 ms between intervals of sending a position update to the entire zone.
1 Zone:MarkMQWarpLT false
1 Zone:HotZoneBonus 0.2 hot zone XP bonus
1 World:GuildBankZoneID 345
1 Character:MaintainIntoxicationAcrossZones true If true, alcohol effects are maintained across zoning and logging out/in.
1 Zone:UsePlayerCorpseBackups true Keeps backups of player corpses.